Super GT reveals 44-car entry list for 2021 season

A entry list comprising a total of 44 cars has been revealed for the 2021 SUPER GT season.

This year’s grid will feature 15 cars in the top GT500 class, while the GT300 category will be made up of 29 cars, a reduction of one compared to last year.

The make-up of the GT500 grid for the 2021 campaign was already known, with manufacturers Toyota, Honda and Nissan having all announced their plans last month.

Toyota is once again fielding six GR Supras, making it the best represented marque in the senior class, while Honda enters five NSX-GTs and Nissan sticks to running four GT-Rs.

Bridgestone supplies tyres for the majority of the class – nine cars – versus a pair of entries each for rivals Michelin, Yokohama and Dunlop.

The Mugen Honda does not have a tyre maker named on the entry list, but ran with Dunlop rubber at a private test at Okayama at the start of this month.

GT500 class entry list:

Manufacturer

Team

Tyre

No.

Drivers

Nissan

(GT-R)

 

 

NISMO

Michelin

23

 Ronnie Quintarelli

 Tsugio Matsuda

Kondo Racing

Yokohama

24

 Mitsunori Takaboshi

 Daiki Sasaki

Team Impul

Bridgestone

12

 Nobuharu Matsushita

 Kazuki Hiramine

NDDP/B-Max Racing

Michelin

3

 Kohei Hirate

 Katsumasa Chiyo

Toyota

(GR Supra)

 

 

 

 

 

TOM’S

 

 

Bridgestone

 

36

 Yuhi Sekiguchi

 Sho Tsuboi

37

 Ryo Hirakawa

 Sacha Fenestraz

Racing Project Bandoh

Yokohama

19

 Yuji Kunimoto

 Ritomo Miyata

SARD

Bridgestone

39

 Heikki Kovalainen

 Yuichi Nakayama

Cerumo

Bridgestone

38

 Hiroaki Ishiura

 Yuji Tachikawa

Rookie Racing

Bridgestone

14

 Kazuya Oshima

 Kenta Yamashita

Honda

(NSX-GT)

 

 

 

 

Team Kunimitsu

Bridgestone

1

 Naoki Yamamoto

 Tadasuke Makino

ARTA

Bridgestone

8

 Tomoki Nojiri

 Nirei Fukuzumi

Team Mugen

Dunlop

16

 Toshiki Oyu

 Ukyo Sasahara

Nakajima Racing

Dunlop

64

 Takuya Izawa

 Hiroki Otsu

Real Racing

Bridgestone

17

 Koudai Tsukakoshi

 Bertrand Baguette

More teams confirmed in GT300

In the GT300 ranks, a few additional entries have been confirmed by the publication of the entry list on top of those that had already been announced.

Among those, Team Mach (Toyota 86 MC), Team Studie (BMW M6 GT3), Team Hitotsuyama (Audi R8 LMS), R’Qs Motor Sports (Mercedes-AMG GT3) and the two-car JLOC Lamborghini Huracan squad will all be present on the grid this year.

GT300 Start Action

Photo by: Masahide Kamio

Subaru is also listed with its still yet-to-be officially unveiled 2021-spec BRZ, with Takuto Iguchi and Hideki Yamauchi both returning as drivers.

Ex-Formula 2 racer Giuliano Alesi is notably missing from the entry list, but is expected to have at least some involvement in the Team Thailand Lexus programme.

Michelin drops out of GT300

The entry list appears to confirm that Michelin will not be involved in the GT300 class this year, with Bridgestone, Yokohama and Dunlop set for a three-way tyre war. Yokohama will supply the bulk of the class with 19 cars, versus five apiece for Bridgestone and Dunlop.

Michelin supplied two cars in GT300 last year, the LM Corsa Lexus RC F GT3 and the D’station Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3.

LM Corsa has switched to Dunlop for 2021 as it trades its Lexus for a Toyota GR Supra GT300, while D’station is not returning to SUPER GT following the dissolution of its partnership with Pacific Racing, which earlier on Thursday confirmed its 2021 plans.

As well as D’station, the Hong Kong-based X Works Audi team is also absent from the 2021 entry list, of last year’s GT300 teams.

Team Mach and JLOC are the only teams still to announce their drivers for the season.

The entry list also confirms that just two of the so-called ‘Mother chassis’ cars, which are based around a standard Dome chassis, are present: the Team Mach Toyota and the previously-confirmed Lotus Evora run jointly by Inging Motorsport and Cars Tokai Dream28.

However, the number of JAF GT300 cars has increased to six, with the remainder of the field (21 cars) being made up by FIA GT3 machinery.

A total of 12 brands will be represented in GT300 this year: Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Subaru, Lotus, Lexus, Ferrari and Lamborghini. 

GT300 class entry list:

No.TeamCarTyreDrivers
2Inging & Cars Tokai Dream28Lotus Evora MCBridgestone

 Hiroki Katoh

 Ryohei Sakaguchi

4Goodsmile Racing with Team UkyoMercedes-AMG GT3Yokohama

 Nobuteru Taniguchi

 Tatsuya Kataoka

5Team MachToyota 86 MCYokohama

TBA

6Team LeMans with Motoyama RacingAudi R8 LMSYokohama

 Satoshi Motoyama

 Yoshiaki Katayama

7Team StudieBMW M6 GT3Yokohama

 Seiji Ara

 Tomohide Yamaguchi

9Pacific CarGuy RacingFerrari 488 GT3Yokohama

 Takeshi Kimura

 Kei Cozzolino

10GainerNissan GT-R NISMO GT3Dunlop

 Kazuki Hoshino

 Keishi Ishikawa

11GainerNissan GT-R NISMO GT3Dunlop

 Katsuyuki Hiranaka

 Hironobu Yasuda

18Team UpGarageHonda NSX GT3Yokohama

 Teppei Natori

 Takashi Kobayashi

21Team HitotsuyamaAudi R8 LMSYokohama

 Shintaro Kawabata

 Takuro Shinahara

22R’Qs Motor SportsMercedes-AMG GT3Yokohama

 Hisashi Wada

 Masaki Jyonai

25Team TsuchiyaPorsche 911 GT3 RYokohama

 Takamitsu Matsui

 Kimiya Sato

30aprToyota Prius GHV GR SportYokohama

 Hiroaki Nagai

 Manabu Orido

31aprToyota Prius GHV GR SportBridgestone

 Yuhki Nakayama

 Koki Saga

34Drago CorseHonda NSX GT3Yokohama

 Ryo Michigami

 Shogo Mitsuyama

35Team ThailandLexus RC F GT3Yokohama

 Sean Walkinshaw

 N. Hortongkum

48NILZZ RacingNissan GT-R NISMO GT3Yokohama

 Taiyou Iida

 Yuki Tanaka

50Arnage RacingMercedes-AMG GT3Yokohama

 Masaki Kano

 Masataka Yanagida

52Saitama Toyopet Green BraveToyota GR Supra GT300Bridgestone

 Hiroki Yoshida

 Kohta Kawaai

55ARTAHonda NSX GT3Bridgestone

 Shinichi Takagi

 Ren Sato

56Kondo RacingNissan GT-R NISMO GT3Yokohama

 Kiyoto Fujinami

 Joao Paulo de Oliveira

60LM CorsaToyota GR Supra GT300Dunlop

 Hiroki Yoshimoto

 Shunsuke Kohno

61R&D SportSubaru BRZ (2021)Dunlop

 Takuto Iguchi

 Hideki Yamauchi

65LEON RacingMercedes-AMG GT3Bridgestone

 Naoya Gamou

 Togo Suganami

87JLOCLamborghini Huracan GT3Yokohama

TBA

88JLOCLamborghini Huracan GT3Yokohama

TBA

96K-Tunes Racing (LM Corsa)Lexus RC F GT3Dunlop

 Morio Nitta

 Sena Sakaguchi

244Max Racing Toyota GR Supra GT300Yokohama

 Yuui Tsutsumi

 Atsushi Miyake

360RUNUP (Tomei Sports)Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3Yokohama

 Takayuki Aoki

 Atsushi Tanaka


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